Caltrns quickmap7/22/2023 ![]() Part of the challenge and the delay in presenting a timeline, he said, was that while the slope created by the rainfall is naturally taking any future rains away from the freeway where it can drain off the hillside, the slope is not safe enough for crews to lay down sheets of plastic often seen at the sites of such excavations to protect it from further rain, due to the current instability of the soil. Two right lanes remain closed as CalTrans crews work to repair the damages. It was too early to say when the lanes could be opened, but workers have been monitoring the area between the Whitaker Brake Check and Templin - which is about 17 miles north of Santa Clarita - around the clock for more than a week, he added.Ī mudslide caused the ground to give way under the shoulder of the southbound I-5 freeway near Templin Highway in Castaic, Calif., on Thursday, March 30, 2023. ![]() A mudslide caused the ground to give way under the shoulder of the southbound I-5 freeway near Templin Highway in Castaic, Calif., on Thursday, March 30, 2023. SCV Signal News Podcast with Aron Benderĭrivers heading back and forth through the Grapevine will now have to deal with another potential delay after what a Caltrans official Thursday described as a “historic amount of rainfall” created a landslide that collapsed the shoulder on the southbound lanes of Interstate 5.Ī stretch of the two right-most lanes on I-5, north of Templin Highway, will remain closed while the repairs are underway, according to Mike Comeaux, spokesman for the California Department of Transportation.
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